By Steve Martini
safety lawyer Paul Madriani will get stuck in an internet of deceit and homicide regarding chilly battle secrets and techniques, a unprecedented coin broker who as soon as labored for the CIA, and a livid murderer in a single of the main wonderful novels but during this New York Times bestselling sequence.
a lady pauses within the hallway of a darkened San Diego seashore residence at night—listening for simply the precise second while she will flee sooner than her spouse notices that she's long gone.
a guy outdoors watches an identical mansion, looking ahead to an indication that he can input on his undertaking of blood and carnage.
So starts off this riveting new story approximately Paul Madriani and his newest case—that of Katia, a lady accused of an not likely crime—a trial that may resolve a cautious yet frightening conspiracy. Madriani quickly realizes that he's signed onto anything even more sinister than a botched heist. As he searches for the fact that will transparent Katia's identify, he unearths himself on a course that takes him from Southern California to Costa Rica, and, eventually, to a mystery buried when you consider that Castro's upward thrust to strength.
along with his companion, Harry Hinds, Madriani needs to piece jointly the threads of a decades-old conspiracy regarding worthy gold cash, an getting older American undercover agent, a disaffected Russian soldier, and a forgotten weapon from the times of JFK and the Cuban Missile situation. because the separate strands of the tale come jointly, Madriani unearths info that may finally lead him to the only one who holds the foremost to all of it: a guy a few name "The father or mother of Lies."
during this attention-grabbing mystery from New York Times bestselling writer Steve Martini, Paul Madriani faces his such a lot challenging—and so much urgent—case but, a breathless tale that mixes truth and fiction and should carry readers captive till its ultimate, explosive end.
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It was as if there were a novella by Balzac round every bend. Prospectors now drove up in Airstreams, pulling gas-fuelled dredges to suck up whatever remained on the river bottoms. A century of flooding and storms had knocked loose the gold from the prehistoric beds, sluicing it down into the rivers. Miners in wetsuits were ‘sniping’ the streams, and swam in the underwater darkness holding giant cauldrons of light. Everything about gold was in opposition to Coop’s life on our farm. It must still have felt to him that he came from nowhere, the horror of his parents’ murder never spoken of by us.
Shasta and Columbia burned. Were rebuilt and burned again and rebuilt again. Sacramento flooded. A hundred years later, at the time of Coop’s obsession, there would still be five thousand full-time gold miners along the banks of the Yuba and Russian rivers. They scouted out the old towns in the Sierras named after lovers and dogs and characters in novels—names that were a time capsule of hunger and desire for a new life. Ne Plus Ultra! At each filament-like dot on the county maps, something had happened.
The grey structure had slowly risen on its skeletal struts, and even before it was completed, Coop would lounge on its sloped roof and gaze at the adjacent hills as though they were a road out. Now, a decade later, there was a leak somewhere within the tower’s dark interior. The minute Coop opened the trapdoor and looked down, panic hit him. There was in his mind the possibility of a snake or even a corpse in that unseen water. He stood for a last moment in the sunlight, pulled up the ladder he’d used to climb onto the apron roof, and dropped it down through the water.